Mdlalose , Gift Lafangathi (G L)

Mike Sandham's research log ("List 1"), imported 16 Sep 2026, credited to The South Africa War Graves Project unless his entry says otherwise: gives Age 24 against this record's 23 (a difference of one year, so most likely a birthday-not-yet-reached transcription difference rather than a real disagreement). This record has no date of birth, so there is nothing to adjudicate with. Flagged, not changed.
25 Sep 2026, Unit2 service-branch sweep: the stored Secondary Unit "Army" was CLEARED as a duplicate. It was not a sub-unit, it was a service-branch word repeating what the Branch column already says. Secondary Unit is for sub-units -- a company, a squadron, a commando -- and this record's branch of service is unchanged at "Army".
12 Oct 2026: Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post, 12 Oct 2026, gives the fuller account: fatally wounded at Keates Drift after being shot by persons unknown while carrying out a house search for a suspected hidden weapons cache. Service number, rank, date and cause already matched.
12 Oct 2026: CONFIRMED CONTAMINATION, CORRECTED. Age 23 cleared and replaced with 29 -- was shared identically across a fragmented run of four distinct real identities (Mdakane 31834, Mdlalose 31837, Mdluli 31839, Mdluli 31840), each with an unrelated cause of death, broken by blank-age records between them -- a forward-fill signature. Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post, 12 Oct 2026, gives this man as 29, applied here per the 9 Oct 2026 policy.